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CNNMoney: New Fed rules miss one key lending abuse

Mortgage brokers and loan officers are getting paid fat fees by lenders to put unsuspecting borrowers into expensive loans. And the new lending rules issued last week by the Federal Reserve do nothing to stop this abusive practice.

Time.com: Bush Chooses New HUD Chief

President Bush on Friday chose SBA Administrator Steve Preston to lead the government's housing agency at a time of crisis in the industry, praising him as a skilled manager

HUD chief resigns amid ethics investigations

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson resigned Monday, amid multiple ethics investigations and criticism from top lawmakers.

Fortune: Building Shanghai's tower of power

Before following his father into the property business, Minoru Mori dreamed of becoming a novelist. So when he returned from an October 1993 visit to Shanghai talking excitedly of a plan to construct the world's tallest building on the impoverished east side of the city's Huangpu River, rivals in Tokyo snickered that Mori had rekindled his interest in fiction.

Time.com: How Green is Your Neighborhood?

If we're using fluorescent bulbs and solar panels, but taking 14 car trips a day, how eco-friendly is our lifestyle, really?

Money Magazine: Hope Now faces big challenges

A key component of the Bush Administration's plan to help troubled homeowners is already under pressure: finding qualified counselers.

The island paradise built on a garbage dump

Garbage dumps are generally not associated with thriving coral reefs, vast mangrove plantations and rare bird species.

Time.com: The New Science of Parking

Big cities are turning to new technologies and theories to try to relieve an old problem: traffic congestion

Fortune: Bangalore's Autobahn

Far from his 18th-century colonial mansion in Philadelphia, Ashok Kheny has been waging a ten-year battle to build a $600 million, 111-kilometer toll road connecting Bangalore to Mysore, the second...

Playing the leak game

There was some last-minute drama in Washington before yesterday's release of the long-awaited report by Independent Counsel David Barrett. Sources close to the three-judge panel overseeing the report say that the panel's members were furious about leaks to the press previewing the report's contents. The report, detailing an organized attempt by Clinton administration officials to shut down an Internal Revenue Service investigation into possible tax violations by President Bill Clinton's secretary of housing and urban development Henry Cisneros, was to be released at 9:00 a.m. Thursday. The day before, late in the afternoon, word went out from the judges to the Independent Counsel's office that the release would be delayed.

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